Live: Thomas Ad�s and the L.A. Philharmonic & other

Britney mad at mom

2008-09-10T18:16:00.001-07:00

Britney Spears is said to be �furious� with her mother, Lynne, after she detailed her daughter�s yesteryear in her memoir, Through the Storm, PageSix.com reports.

The playscript blames all of Britney�s problems on her daughter�s former managers. Spears � who already considered her mother a siphon on her purse � is �upset� about the book, sources said, especially when she feels Lynne herself caused so many of her problems and issues.

Spears is now only talking to her begetter, Jamie, wHO, as her conservator and guardian, has cleaned up her personal business and arrange his girl back on the straight and narrow.

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Classical: Les Arts Florissants/Christie/Von Otter, Usher Hall, Edinburgh

2008-08-31T18:28:00.001-07:00

Anne Sofie von Otter's recital with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie was the outcome of what the Swedish mezzo-soprano calls her "new love affair" with French baroqueness music. Operatic scenes by Charpentier and Rameau formed the rachis of her programme, each half of which approached one of their corking tragic heroines - Charpentier's M�d�e, Ph�dre in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie - via songs, instrumental suites and dances. Von Otter is verbally the most subtle of artists. Given that both composers' styles are stock-still as much in textual declamation as in song, it is surprising that she has taken so long to tackle them.

Charpentier, with his sharp, rapid insights into the human psyche, is better suited to concert excerpts than Rameau, whose examination of the head is slower and more probing. You don't get the full measure of his Ph�dre if you isolate her from the context of the opera, in which her emotional turbulence is measured by constant comparing with everyone else's mental stability. Von Otter's portrayal - sorry, grieving and, at the close, nobly resigned - remained of necessity, and frustratingly, incomplete.

Her M�d�e, however, was a thing of wonder. Keeping us the right face of empathy, Von Otter dragged us with her into mouth monstrosity, unleashing hell with the to the highest degree exquisite of pianissimos and suggesting vortices of emotion beneath the calm, controlled surface.

Christie's examination of the insidious instrumental differences between each composer was immaculate. Flutes indicate compassion in Hippolyte et Aricie, but deceit in M�d�e. Charpentier, obstinate to presuppositions, was shown as having the greater harmonic mountain chain. Enthralling.

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Delirious

2008-08-11T18:19:00.001-07:00

Artist: Delirious

   Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
   Metal: Thrash
   Trance
   Rock
   Other
   Gospel

Discography:


Made for the Violent Age

   Year: 2006
Tracks: 13


Explosive

   Year: 2006
Tracks: 1


The Mission Bell

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 11


Minimal (Unreleased)

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 1


Break Point

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 10


Touch

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 10


Glo

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 15


Cutting Edge

   Year: 2000
Tracks: 13


Mezzamorphis

   Year: 1999
Tracks: 16


King of Fools

   Year: 1998
Tracks: 12

Tiny Masters of Today

2008-08-06T01:23:00.001-07:00

Artist: Tiny Masters of Today

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Bang Bang Boom Cake

Year: 2007
Tracks: 13

Tiny Masters of Today took their list from a stria in the Blake Nelson koran Rockstar Superstar, a young adult novel around the trials and tribulations of existence in a stone band. The Tiny Masters -- Ivan, 13, guitar and vocals, and his sister Ada, 11, bass and vocals -- have had far fewer troubles than Nelson did in his fabricated striation. The yoke began scripted material songs earlier they had any idea of starting a dance band. Ivan (no final make calling, a knowing maternal decision, one thinks) was jamming with some friends when Ada started singing about how much she disliked George W. Bush. The effect was "Bushy," which appears on their debut album Bang Bang Boom Cake. They're non technical musicians, but non being competent musically has never been an event in john Rock candy & wind. They get up for their deficiency of chops with an elating mightiness and their innocuous insolence. Singing may be beyond them yet, merely once again, it never stopped Johnny Rotten or Handsome Dick Manitoba. Ivan and Ada ar pretty normal kids. You don't get the feeling that they receive overbearing parents egging them on, and their music isn't cutesy, it's real goon stone, if a fleck derived function.

Their parents curtailed their TV observance on schooltime nights, so the duo and a few of Ivan's friends took refuge in the phratry basement where their parents supplied so with a chinchy metal drum kit and a few old amps. Ivan was decade when he picked up the guitar and Ada followed him on bass at 8-years-old. They created a MySpace website and started putt up demos they made victimization the drumfish programs on Garageband, the user-friendly MacIntosh programme. Andrew Romano, a newsman for Newsweek cartridge, establish them on MySpace where they'd racked up 13,000 spins in a footling more than 7 months, with no promo or selling plan. He wrote them up in a patch called "Middle School of Rock," noting that a British indie judge called Tiger Trap had snapped up their demos and put them out as an EP called Big Noise. Romano called them remarkable for their brattish laborious john Rock tunes and gave them their first interview. When Romano asked Ivan if his classmates like Tiny Masters better than Disney's calendered Senior high school School Musical, he responded like a real rock star: "A clustering of kids in my class formed a fan night club for us," he said. "They, like, worship me." The tunes on Big Noise -- " "Bushy," "Stickin' It to the Man" and "Tooty Frooty" (non the Little Richard song) -- got rave reviews in the British beseech, and airplay on the BBC and XFM radiocommunication. The U.K. mag Artrocker put them on their cover and David Bowie weighed in with a rave review, vocation their music "wizardry" in an interview in the London Times. Not defective for a bunch of homemade demos.

Next to appear was Russell Simins, drummer for the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, wHO besides found the band on MySpace. He sent an email and asked if they'd like to crush with him. After coming together their parents to convince them he wasn't an eccentric person, Simins became their drummer and the only when adult in the band. Gigs at CBGB's and the McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn started building a stateside buzz. K.I.D.S., another EP of home demos, came out in the U.K. and sold out spell Simins took the kids into a real studio and started laying down tracks for their debut Slam Bang Boom Cake. Chris Maxwell and Phil Hernandez (aka the Elegant Too of Brave Combo, Shivaree, They Might Be Giants, John Cale) co-produced the sides with Simins. Most tracks simply supply a mo of polish to the band's unsanded squall, just a few elder common people dropped by the roger Huntington Sessions to supply their two cents. "Disco Bomb" features the B-52's Fred Schneider on background signal vocals and Ramones-like lyrics "Discotheque bomb, we got it goin' on." "Trendsetter" has anti-folk star Kimya Dawson performing one of her demented outbursts around the incorporated indoctrination of tween consumers, while her married man Angelo Spencer adds some real lead guitar. "Holograph World" features Nicolas Zinner from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on guitar with Karen O portion out on vocals. Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) and DJ Atsushi too dropped by to help out. The finished album was snapped up by Mute in the U.K.; Great Society, an American indie, put the album out in the U.S. In 2007, Tiny Masters played out their summer vacation on circuit, wowing 'em at SXSW (the youngest band to e'er play the fete) and merchandising out smaller venues in London. They were peerless of the highlights of the Underage Festival in Victoria Park, along with a passel of tween bands from the U.K.. In the light of 2007, Tiny Masters returned to shoal in Brooklyn, NY and had to one-armed bandit in gigs as their schooling and parents permitted.

Joel Madden Denies Nicole Richie Wedding

2008-06-19T01:52:00.001-07:00

Joel Madden took to his blog to angrily deny magazine rumours that he and his girlfriend Nicole Richie had got married without their family or friends in attendance.

The Good Charlotte star admits to feeling "really stupid" by addressing the gossip but felt he had to do something when upset pals started calling him asking why he'd failed to invite them to his nuptials.

He writes: "I've been getting calls and texts from my family all week asking me why they weren't invited to my wedding. I guess the only answer I could give them was that I didn't know we were having one.

"I just found out that star magazine (U.S. publication) wrote some story about a 2 MILLION dollar wedding we are supposed to be having, and that's (sic) where it came from.

"Sooooo if you were pissed at me for not inviting you or even telling you, dont blame me, theres (sic) nothing to worry about. Its just star magazine.

"How long do you think it will be before they write we called it off, or we broke up? i give them a week or two..."

Departure for Jesse

2008-06-11T13:33:00.001-07:00

Following the incredible success that Bleeding Love � the smash single from British pop singer Leona Lewis � achieved on international charts, Jesse McCartney is in demand.

McCartney, who collaborated with OneRepublic�s Ryan Tedder to write Bleeding Love, says he now has many new writing opportunities to choose from. In addition, he has a long list of artists he would love to write material for, including Sean Kingston and Mariah Carey.

�I�ve always wanted to do a record for Mariah, so I�m in the middle of writing some stuff with her in mind, but she doesn�t know it I don�t think,� McCartney tells Metro. �And I know Simon (Cowell) definitely wants Ryan and I to get back in and start writing for the next Idols that are coming up.�

McCartney had known about Tedder�s writing abilities for a while, and so the pair decided to meet up prior to the release of OneRepublic�s radio and ringtone hit Apologize.

McCartney says he was in the studio working with Tedder on material for Departure � McCartney�s latest studio album � when they came up with the tune Bleeding Love.

The track didn�t make the cut on Departure, so it was temporarily put aside while the album was recorded.

�We decided collectively that (Bleeding Love) was more of a feminine song. And when it got pushed to the side somehow Simon Cowell got his sticky fingers on it and so did Clive Davis,� he says.

�Leona had just won X-Factor and they were looking for like a pop ballad, and we passed it her way and she tore it apart. It was really kind of a perfect storm situation and took us all by surprise.�

Unlike his previous albums, Departure is just that � an effort to move on to something new and different.

�The last couple of years have been interesting, I feel like I�ve opened a new chapter � got my own place now, been single for a year and a half,� says McCartney about the basis for his songs. �It�s honest, and I feel like the fans appreciate stuff like that � makes for great songwriting.�

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The Enforcer - 6/3/2008

2008-06-04T21:11:00.001-07:00

Dirty Harry #3 is undoubtedly the worst of the bunch, with Callahan chasing down a group of hippie radical terrorists, several years after the end of the hippie radical terrorist era. A few minor points for excellent use of such enormous area landmarks as Coit Tower, Alcatraz, and Tyne Daly.

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Garraway denies affair with dance partner

2008-05-31T21:22:00.001-07:00

TV presenter Kate Garraway has said she and her husband are as in love as ever, dismissing allegations about her relationship with her 'Strictly Come Dancing' partner Anton Du Beke.
In a statement released by her solicitors, Garraway, who is married to psychotherapist Derek Draper, said she had been "extremely hurt" by allegations in a Sunday newspaper.
She said: "Contrary to these insinuations Derek and I are as faithful, happy and in love today as we have ever been.
She continued: "The plain truth is that Anton and I became friends during 'Strictly Come Dancing'."
"Since then we often work and hang out together. For that to be twisted into something else is sad, hurtful and totally untrue."
The 'GMTV' presenter added: "I am extremely upset and hurt by the allegations. I made it clear before publication that there was no truth to them whatsoever.
"Given they were published in any event and continue to be published, I feel I have no option but to take libel proceedings against the newspaper to set the record straight."

Jim Broadbent - Broadbents Potter Snub

2008-05-28T21:18:00.001-07:00

British actor JIM BROADBENT took on a role in forthcoming movie HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE - despite harbouring a dislike for the boy wizard franchise.

The star plays teacher Horace Slughorn in the sixth installment of the films, which are all adapted from J.K. Rowling's book series.

But Broadbent insists he did not accept his role in the penultimate movie out of love for the famous books - admitting that he doesn't even like the Potter series.

He says, "I'm not a massive fan."

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Jay A. Fernandez joins THR

2008-05-28T20:44:00.001-07:00

Jay A. Fernandez, who has written the Los Angeles Times' weekly Scriptland column about screenwriters since September 2006, has joined The Hollywood Reporter as a film reporter, editor Elizabeth Guider said.

Kim Kardashian - Kardashian Selling Clothes Accessories For Charity

2008-05-28T20:20:00.001-07:00

Hollywood socialite-turned-reality TV star KIM KARDASHIAN is cleaning out her closet for charity.

The former best friend of Paris Hilton, Kardashian will auction off Jimmy Choo boots, Chanel bags and various designer dresses and accessories to raise cash for the Dream Foundation, which grants wishes to the terminally ill.

Kardashian will also take a winning bidder out for lunch and a shopping spree at her DASH store in Calabasas, California.

She says, "It's going to be amazing! These are some of my favourite items... Plus, (you can) bid to have a fantastic lunch with me and my sisters, followed by some personal shopping help from us at our store."

And she's urging other celebrities to follow her lead and use eBay.com's Giving Works resource to help raise cash for unwanted items.

She adds, "You get to do something good... and look good doing it. And, in case you didn't know, anytime you sell something on eBay, you can donate a percentage of your proceeds to charity.

"So clean out those closets and get rid of last season's clothes for a great cause."

Kardashian's eBay.com auction begins on Thursday night (29May08).

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Serenity

2008-05-28T19:59:00.000-07:00

Artist: Serenity

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:


Pilates Strengthening

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 3


Pilates Balance

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 3


Buddhist Nature

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 1

Comprised of the trio of Malcolm Lane (harp, vocals), Phil Briggs (guitar, vocals), and Rob Sinclair (freshwater bass, vocals), this New Zealand chemical group place out a healthy album of California psychedelia-influenced folk-rock, Slice of Mind. Originally issued in 1972, it was given an roughly evenly hidden CD reprint several decades subsequently.

Deepak Chopra and Adam Plack

2008-05-28T19:38:00.001-07:00

Artist: Deepak Chopra and Adam Plack

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

The Soul Of Healing Meditations

Year: 2001
Tracks: 8

Hotline: The Help gets up-'Staged by fans

Speed Racer A Slow Starter Overseas Too

2008-05-28T18:32:00.000-07:00

Speed Racer
hit the overseas market with all gaskets blowing. It earned just $12.8 million in
30 countries, to place third at the international box office, behind Iron Man,
which remained the top film with a gross of $39 million in its second week. (It
has now grossed $165 million overseas. With its domestic gross, its worldwide total
has reached $342.1 million after two weekends.) Twentieth Century Fox's What Happens
in Vegas actually earned more overseas than it did in the U.S., drawing an estimated
$23 million in 36 countries.

12/05/2008

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Live: Thomas Ad�s and the L.A. Philharmonic

2008-05-28T18:30:00.001-07:00

"If a hoary critic seems to be writing in the vein of a modern publicist," Andrew Porter wrote in the program notes to an early recording of Thomas Adès’ music, it is because "young Adès, like Purcell and Britten, without repeating himself, has freshened and revitalized the mainsprings of modern music." That disc, which opens with the whimsical "Living Toys" and the wistful string quartet "Arcadiana," is 10 years old, and Adès is now 37.

"Living Toys" and "Arcadiana," composed when Adès was in his early 20s and seemingly the brightest kid in Britain, made up the first part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella program at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday night. The second half was devoted to the U.S. premiere of his latest work, "In Seven Days," a co-commission by the Philharmonic and the Southbank Centre in London, where it was given its first performance last month.

The new piece, which is subtitled "A Piano Concerto With Moving Image," is a dazzling collaboration between Adès and his life partner, Tal Rosner, an Israeli-born video artist. How might another critic steer clear of publicist temptations?

Well, "In Seven Days" isn't much of a piano concerto. Nicolas Hodges was the exciting soloist, but the orchestral writing was so spectacular that he became mostly part of the mix. And spellbinding as was Rosner's abstract imagery, presented on six screens, he now and then fell victim to the music and mimicked it too closely.

But then Rosner has merely succumbed to the same temptation that many of us find increasingly hard to resist. Full of the life of our own times yet so rooted in the past that it feels like family, Adès' music operates on so many different parts of the brain at once that it overpowers critical faculties.

Brightly bopping scores tickle the pleasure centers. Ingenious counterpoint stimulates the logic-leaning synapses of the left brain. Musical fantasy and illogic mess with the right brain. By this point, who has a enough gray matter left for anything else?

If Adès, also a talented pianist and conductor (he led the performances of "Living Toys" and "In Seven Days"), is known for any one thing, it is for not being known for any one thing. "In Seven Days" occupies a more mature space than the earlier works. But the freshness has not grown stale.

"Living Toys" is a hero's life for nerds. Goofy music accompanies a childhood fantasy of fighting bulls, sashaying with angels, dying a champion. The chamber ensemble channels Janácek here and there, yet its silly sounds resemble no other music. The performance with the Philharmonic's New Music Group was sensational.

The Calder Quartet played "Arcadiana," which reimagines olden times. The players limn something Elgar-like, float into old paintings, wander just this side of Ades' beloved Couperin, dip their toes into "The Magic Flute" and late Beethoven.

The accomplishment here, though, is that the music feels modern, the old world as contemporary dream. The Calder, which has just recorded it, grows ever more ravishing.

"In Seven Days" is a sort of ode to Disney Hall and the Southbank's Royal Festival Hall. Rosner shot imagery at both places but, after computer manipulation, little if anything other than the water of the Thames is recognizable. The score, which Adès and Rosner describe as "a video-ballet," follows the story of the Creation. Not too much of that is recognizable either.

Day One is chaos. Day Seven is contemplation. We begin with dappled river current and can maybe imagine the creation of the seas and land, the sun and stars, life, us. Blue in the video kaleidoscope is, I think, the sky; green, the Earth.

The music is full of wonder. The sections of a sizable chamber ensemble get workouts. Piano and percussion are full of pointillist glitter. Horns erupt into an explosion that, tied to the video, updates "2001." Did I also catch a hint of "Star Wars" in the brass and "E.T." calling home in the winds?

Crazy fugues ricochet. The colors amaze. One listens and looks with delight for half an hour. People left the hall with smiles on their faces. Adès will return next season.

mark.swed@latimes.com